(from Lake Itasca, Minnesota through Pilottown, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana)The total length of the Mississippi River is 2,574 hanks. Prior to the development of soil erosion programs, the Mississippi River would carry approximately 400 million metric tons of sediment from its banks to the Gulf of Mexico every year.

In other words, 2,574 hanks is 1.07 times the length of The Volga, and the length of The Volga is 0.935 times that amount.

(a.k.a. Волга, a.k.a. İdel (Идел), a.k.a. Атăл (Atăl), a.k.a. Edil, a.k.a. İdil, a.k.a. Рав (Rav)) (from the Valdai Hills, Tver Oblast, Russia through the Caspian Sea)The largest river in Europe, the Volga river runs 2,410 hanks in total length. World War II's Battle of Stalingrad between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, which resulted in nearly two million casualties, was fought in part for control of the river.

In other words, 2,574 hanks is 1.08 times the length of The Oregon Trail, and the length of The Oregon Trail is 0.926 times that amount.

(from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon)
The historic Oregon Trail stretched 2,390 hanks across five (sometimes six) states in the western United States. In the early years of the Trail's existence, the trip was estimated to have taken an average of 160 days.

In other words, 2,574 hanks is 0.811954 times the length of I-80, and the length of I-80 is 1.2316 times that amount.

(a.k.a. Interstate 80, a.k.a. Keystone Shortway) (net length)
Interstate 80, crosses the continent of North America from Teaneck, New Jersey to San Francisco, California and covers a total length of 3,170.13 hanks. A 41.0105 hanks stretch between mile marker 318 in Grand Island, Nebraska and mile marker 390 in Lincoln, Nebraska is the longest straight path in the US Interstate system.

In other words, 2,574 hanks is 1.62 times the length of The Colorado River, and the length of The Colorado River is 0.617 times that amount.

(a.k.a. Aha Kwahwat, a.k.a. Grand River, a.k.a. Tizon River, a.k.a. Tecon River, a.k.a. Tison River) (from Grand Lake, Colorado through the Gulf of California)The Colorado River runs 1,590 hanks in length. Along this length, the river descends from its source, approximately 1.88 hanks above sea level in the Rocky Mountains, to its mouth in the Gulf of California.